Reflecting a wide variety of approaches to eighteenth-century
opera, this Companion brings together leading international experts
in the field to provide a valuable reference source. Viewing opera
as a complex and fascinating form of art and social ritual, rather
than reducing it simply to music and text analysis, individual
essays investigate aspects such as audiences, architecture of the
theaters, marketing, acting style, and the politics and strategy of
representing class and gender. Overall, the volume provides a
synthesis of well established knowledge, reflects recent research
on eighteenth-century opera, and stimulates further research. The
reader is encouraged to view opera as a cultural phenomenon that
can reveal aspects of our culture, both past and present.
Eighteenth-century opera is experiencing continuing critical and
popular success through innovative and provoking productions
world-wide, and this Companion will appeal to opera goers as well
as to students and teachers of this key topic.
目錄：
List of music examples
List of illustrations and tables
Notes on contributors
Preface and acknowledgments
Chronology of eighteenth-century operas and select events
List of abbreviations xxii
Part I The making of opera
1 Opera as process
Pierpaolo Polzonetti
2 Aria as drama
James Webster
3 Ensembles and finales
Caryl Clark
4 Metastasio: the dramaturgy of eighteenth-century
heroic opera
Francesco Cotticelli and Paologiovanni Maione
5 Roles and acting
Gianni Cicali
6 Ballet
Rebecca Harris-Warrick
7 Orchestra and voice in eighteenth-century Italian
opera
John Spitzer
8 To look again at Don Giovanni
Alessandra Campana
Part II National styles and genres 153
9 Genre and form in French opera
David Charlton
10 Genre and form in German opera
Estelle Joubert
11 Opera in eighteenth-century England: English
opera, masques, ballad operas
Michael Burden
12 Opera in Naples
Anthony R. DelDonna
13 Portugal and Brazil
Manuel Carlos De Brito
14 Opera, genre, and context in Spain and its
American colonies
Louise K. Stein and José Máximo Leza
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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